Location in the Sales Order

When you create a sales order in SAP CRM, you need to specify which location SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) should use to check availability of the products.

Prerequisites

The location is stored in SAP CRM as a business partner. For each location:

There must be a business partner master record with the business partner category Organization.
You can find more information under Business Partners.
This business partner record must be included in a partner determination procedure used by the sales order.
You can find more information under Partner Processing.
The business partner master record must be assigned to the location in the ATP system in Customizing for Customer Relationship Management, as follows:
- For SAP APO:
  Basic Functions Availability Check Availability Check Using SAP APO Assign Location in SAP CRM to Location in SAP APO
- For SAP ECC:
  Basic Functions Availability Check Availability Check Using SAP ECC Assign Location in SAP CRM to Plant in SAP ECC

Features

The location is displayed in the sales item in the field Vendor (Plant).

Note Note

You can also consolidate items so that they are delivered from a single location. For more information, see Consolidation Location.

End of the note.

Activities

The location can be entered:

Automatically, using location determination in SAP APO or SAP ECC, depending on which system you use to carry out the availability check
You can find more information under Location Determination in the Sales Order.
Manually
You can overwrite a location for a sales order item when you create or change a sales order.
For more information, see Location - Manual Entry in the Sales Order.

You can specify the maximum number of locations in the sales order. In this case, an order item is delivered from no more than the specified number of locations.